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The budget Gov. Murphy signed this weekend includes $3.1M for immigrants fighting deportation — a boost of more than $1M from the last budget.

Assemblyman Roy Freiman, D-Somerset, said his bill serves as a "circuit breaker" that presses pause on escalating increases should employment or revenues take a plunge.

A bill raising New Jersey’s minimum wage to $15 an hour for most workers by 2024 was passed Thursday and will be signed into law Monday.

Marijuana legalization in New Jersey took its first two steps Monday through the state Legislature, though the tallest hurdles remain to be cleared.